Palantir Knows Everything About You
Technologisch zo indrukwekkend maar toch ook zo akelig.
The bottom line: A CIA-funded firm run by an eccentric philosopher has become one of the most valuable private companies in tech, valued at 20 billion dollars.
The biggest problem for Palantir’s business may be just how well its software works: It helps its customers see too much. Palantir’s tools have come to represent privacy advocates’ greatest fears of data-mining technology. "the company backed out of a job that involved analyzing information on public Facebook pages. Karp has also stated that Palantir turned down a chance to work with a tobacco firm, and overall the company walks away from as much as 20% of its possible revenue for ethical reasons."
"They are not all accounted for, the lost seeing stones. We do not know who else may be watching." -Gandalf
"leuk" snip uit het artikel; "The list is distributed to patrolmen, with orders to monitor and stop the
pre-crime suspects as often as possible, using excuses such as jaywalking or fix-it tickets. At each contact, officers fill out a field interview card with names, addresses, vehicles, physical descriptions, any neighborhood intelligence the person offers, and the officer’s own observations on the subject.
The cards are digitized in the Palantir system, adding to a constantly expanding surveillance database that’s fully accessible without a warrant." How could this possibly go wrong?